Articles tagged “web science”
A small selection of press articles and papers to which the Seme4 partners and senior management team have contributed.
Identifying Communicator Roles in Twitter
21 April 2012
Research paper by Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall and Jonny Bentwood on a new model to enable analysis of conversations on Twitter. The model includes categorisation of users based on their behaviour, identification of key players in a conversation, categorisation by topic and identification of users who may distribute valuable knowledge.
MoreThe emerging discipline of Web Science
14 January 2012
A chapter by Dr. Kieron O’Hara and Professor Dame Wendy Hall in The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, edited by William Dutton, Oxford University Press 2012, discussing the rationale for the new discipline of Web Science, the definition of the Web, Web architecture, the role of government, semantics and linked data.
MoreCelebrating Science: Wendy Hall at the NPL
02 January 2012
Professor Dame Wendy Hall gave a talk entitled “Towards a Smarter Web” as part of the “Celebrating Science” series of lectures at the NPL (National Physical Laboratory). The NPL is the National Measurement Institute for the UK, developing measurement standards and techniques for all areas of business, science and technology.
MoreWeb Science and Reflective Practice
24 November 2010
Research paper reflective practice in Web Science by Kieron O’Hara and Wendy Hall
MoreNigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee head new Institute for Web Science
26 March 2010
The Government recently announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science. It is designed to make the UK the hub of international research into the next generation of web and internet technologies and their commercialisation, and was announced by the Prime Minister alongside plans for a radical opening up of information and data to put more power in people’s hands.
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